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Florida: Big Business and Big Government Collude to Further Undermine the Constitution of the United States

The government of the United States honors its illegal commitments to corporations over its supposed commitment to upholding the Constitution of the United States. If this doesn't make your blood boil, you are probably a fascist. From Ars Technica:

A police department in Florida failed to tell judges about its use of
a cell phone tracking tool "because the department got the device on
loan and promised the manufacturer to keep it all under wraps," the
American Civil Liberties Union said in a blog post today.

The device was likely a "Stingray,"
which is made by the Florida-based Harris Corporation. Stingrays
impersonate cell phone towers in order to compel phones to "reveal their
precise locations and information about all of the calls and text
messages they send and receive," the ACLU noted. "When in use, stingrays
sweep up information about innocent people and criminal suspects
alike."

The
tracking technology was used by the Tallahassee Police Department in
September 2008 to locate a man accused of rape and the theft of a purse,
which contained the alleged victim's cell phone. The man, James L.
Thomas, was convicted of sexual battery and theft, but he filed an
appeal "contending that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth
Amendment, and article I, section 12 of the Florida Constitution, was
introduced against him at trial," according to a court ruling in November 2013 that reversed the conviction and ordered a new trial.

Police "did not want to obtain a search warrant because they did not
want to reveal information about the technology they used to track the
cell phone signal," the District Court of Appeal ruling said. "The
prosecutor told the court that a law enforcement officer 'would tell you
that there is a nondisclosure agreement that they’ve agreed with the
company.'"

All government employees who participated in these despicable acts should be tried for treason.